In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

They're both very aggressive. They have a nose for the football, they usually know where it's going to go.

I think I should know because I usually had the best seat in the house — on my back.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Winning the Oscar will inspire Asian directors who try to get a seat in Hollywood. His success tells them that they don't have to give up their cultures to join the American mainstream.